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Artist’s Statement

 

My paintings focus on the urban / suburban infrastructure dominating our landscape – roads, traffic lights and communication networks entangled overhead, gas stations and convenient stores. I relish the disjointed imagery glimpsed through my car window while looking over the SUV in the next lane.  When I piece together this drive-by landscape I see a culture obsessed with mobility, predictability and convenience.

I use fragmented images, repeated across multiple panels to explore an ambiguous shifting space and a hint of narrative. Each work incorporates memories formed by moments half observed and then forgotten, but made familiar through countless repetition. The painting takes shape as a hybrid, not quite any-place, not quite no-place. I want to create an experience that is intimate because I’ve been there, but anonymous because it is everywhere. 

 


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